25 September, 2007

I've been asked to do an Xmas card for our Rugby Club this year so I thought you might like to see it as a 'work in progress'. I'm doing it digitally, in Corel Painter and using oil painting type brushes.

Here is the rough :

And here it is so far, I've dropped the line work onto the dark background and am applying layers of colour.

It looks quite dark at the moment but in the end I'd like it to have the feel of this card (in the best Blue Peter tradition, here's one I did earlier!):

The GCI Artists' Blog

We thought we would try having a GCI Artists blog and have our own exclusive artists' community.All GCI artists are welcome to join in and add pieces of artwork for peer review or discuss illustration problems and solutions etc.Obviously we'll need to see how it develops and whether its purpose needs refining but I guess until we start using it we won't know what we want from it.This blog is visible to everyone who visits the GCI website so you may wish to bear that in mind.So over to you ladies and gentlemen...